Tuesday: cookout

Tonight we combined Bible studies and had a cookout. Unfortunately, it rained almost the whole time, but there was a least a covered deck. The cool part about it was that the sun shown through the rain for quite a while, which made the backyard look really pretty.

Other than that, I'm in a weird mood.

Monday: work

I had to go to work today. :(

The exciting thing about this week is that we get eight hours of vacation on Friday. Usually I've been working 4-5 hours on Friday, so I should be able to leave early on Thursday!

Sunday: misc

I had two dreams last night about packing. The first was packing up a dorm room...Nathan and I were going to put all our stuff in the car and go somewhere. But then I had way too much stuff and it was taking much longer than anticipated. In the second Ben and I were married, but living with another couple and we had all just graduated. It was a speedy move-out, so I was putting things in boxes and not even caring if the tops would close.

I also got a new pet in Warcraft! I'm the big tree, and I got the little tree as a pet.

Don't touch that button - Science musuem

Saturday: Eragon

We watched Eragon tonight. It was disappointing. If it hadn't been connected to a book it might have been ok (although no better than ok), but since I was expecting certain things that didn't happen it was disappointing.

Friday: girl's night

Some girls from my Bible Study got together last night for a girl's night. We had Chinese, did manicures/pedicures, and watched a movie. And talked a lot. It was great fun.

Thursday: work and texts

Wednesday was a really good day at work. I had something to do pretty much the whole day. Today, however, was much slower. I'm wondering if part of it is because I'm only at a given place for part of the week...no one can give me anything that is really time sensitive. I am considering exploring the option of working a half day at one place and a half at the other. Traveling would be a little more annoying, but maybe I could get a little more work. The thing is that I'm not sure if there is more work and if my idea would really make a difference. All that I want (right now) is to know what I'm doing the next day and know that it is enough to keep me busy. Or mostly busy. Oh well. I still have a job. (Speaking of which, layoffs will now be announced mid-July).

Now for the funny part of the post. This actually happened a while ago, but shows my incompetence with text messaging. Someone asked "When is Ben's birthday?"

This is how far I got before I accidentally pushed send (and then cancel) while I was trying to find a "2".

Since that didn't work at all, I thought I would try spelling twenty six. That word turned out to be too long.

I ended up with an e-mail. I still haven't figured out numbers, so please don't text me a question that requires a big number answer.

Tuesday: headache

Around 4:30 I started to get a headache. Sigh. Well, maybe it won't be too bad. Ben is ready to go a bit earlier than I expected, so I start walking out. Oh bother, my head is really starting to hurt. I happen to see Laura for the second time that day (we rarely see each other) and I almost missed her as I try to keep my head still. I make it home doing ok, but not great. Then it exploded. But since it is my normal headache, as long as I am still it stays away. When I got up about 20 min later it wasn't completely gone, but it was good enough to move to movie night. By the time we reached there it was gone. Phew.

Ben and I are also doing a pushup challenge...1oo pushups within about 10 minutes after 6 weeks. I do mine against the wall because I'm not strong enough to do them on the floor. Anyway, both of our arms are now feeling funny.

Sunday: sunflowers

I received a sunflower starter kit from my secret sister at church today. So I put it together tonight. I also added a bit of protection from Flurry...I might put it outside tomorrow without the protection.

Saturday: science museum

Today we went to the science museum in Syracuse. It was a lot of fun and a very good museum.

There was a jungle gym type thing which didn't really have anything to do with science but was a lot of fun to explore


There were buildings, with intricate detail, made of toothpicks...
(and heavy machenery building the buildings...also made from toothpicks).
And a seashell climbing wall

We were going to go to a recommended restaruant, but at 4pm the wait was 1.5 hours. So we went to Buffalo Wild Wings instead.

All in all, a great indoor day. And we were all glad we weren't camping since it was a steady rain all day.

Friday: dice

We were supposed to go camping this weekend with some friends, but it had a high chance of rain all weekend. I am bummed, but we managed to do some fun inside things instead.

Friday we went out to eat, played a new dice game, played a dice riddle, and then played bounce the dice into the cup. It was actually a lot of fun.

Wednesday: an enjoyable day

So work was "fun" today. At the very end of yesterday it was too, but before then it was just ok. I think some of it is that I have a little backlog of work to do, so I have a few options and aren't in constant fear of having nothing to do.

Now it's time for "You think you can dance!"

Sunday: Scarlet 2

Today I got my picture with Scarlet. After that we went to the pool and had a slow lunch.

Saturday: Scarlet

Travis and Allison were in PA this weekend so we went down to visit them and Scarlet, their new daughter.

Ben and Scarlet..

Having fun by the hotel...

Thursday: how the soup turned out

Well, I got home and found that the soup had more turned into a casserole...all the water was gone. Probably because I put in extra rice because there didn't seem to be enough. (I added more water too but apparently not enough.) But, since all the liquid was gone there it didn't overflow. :) I tasted it and the result was not very good. So Ben and I ended up putting in some cream of chicken, salt, and cheese, and then it turned out quite good.

Which is fortunate, because we have about four large meals of the stuff left.

Wednesday: cooking

Today was a cooking night. I made a chicken and wild rice soup that I hope doesn't boil over too much tomorrow because the crock pot is really full. Luckily Ben is working from home so he can keep a small eye on it. I also put quite a bit more rice (and therefore a bit more water) than what it calls for so I hope the proportions end up being correct. After that I made spice bars for a picnic on Friday. My plan is to precut and preserve them so that we can have some in our lunches for the next few days too.

During most of this I got to watch So you Think you Can Dance. My two favorite guys did really well but my favorite girl didn't do so well. We'll see what happens tomorrow!

Tuesday: baseball

Today we went to a baseball game with our Bible Study. It was fun, although I'm not sure it is something that I want to do very often. I don't pay enough attention to the game. It also didn't help that we scored zero runs. :(

Saturday: Sims

Well, we got a new computer game (Sims 3) this past week and so both Ben and I played a lot today. But some weekends like that are nice. We did get several chores done too, including cleaning out some closets. :)

Friday: happy donut day!

Today is donut day. So after dinner we got some donuts!!

Thursday: headache

My headache started this afternoon and is still periodically around. It isn't a terrible one, and when I don't move it goes away. So I've done a lot of not moving tonight. This allowed me to give my full attention to "So you think you can dance."

Tomorrow's Friday!!!! It's kind of been a long week.

Tuesday: second new project

Today was my first day at the second project. They seemed a little bit more prepared, but still not completely prepared, so there was some down time. But I'm optimistic that following days will go well.

It was weird seeing people I used to work with everyday around but not working with them.

My (old) project was officially terminated last night. This will mean more layoffs coming up, possibly the end of June. (There was an e-mail that said something about the end of June, but I couldn't tell if that is when they would know how many they needed to layoff or if that is when the layoffs would be.)

Monday night: love

I think I was having a hard time falling asleep last night (I say think because I might have been sleeping and waking up) when Ben came to bed. He asked me something and I said I was cold. I also wasn't feeling great when I went to bed. Anyway, he gave me a short but incredibly soothing backrub and snuggled with me to help warm me up. I slept well after that.

Monday: first new project

Today was day 1 of my new project. I've worked with most of the people before, so I at least sort-of knew what I was getting myself into. I think it will be about what I expect... some more vba programing (which I enjoy), some procedure stuff (which is ok), and hopefully some of my own harnesses. But work is a bit in short supply for at least the next month, so it might be a while before that happens.

So Flurry usually goes upstairs after putting me to bed when it is time for Ben to go to bed. However, last night she was a little early getting Ben so he took some pictures of her instead.